catch-limit · atlantic hms · shark · Published 2008-12-24 · Effective 2009-01-23 · 73 FR 79005
Document
Document number
E8-30711
Federal Register citation
73 FR 79005
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule; fishing season notification.
Category
catch-limit
Region
atlantic hms
Species
shark
Publication date
2008-12-24
Effective date
2009-01-23
NOAA docket
Docket No. 080723890-81590-02
Abstract
This final rule establishes the annual quotas for the 2009 fishing season for sandbar sharks, non-sandbar large coastal sharks (LCS), small coastal sharks (SCS), and pelagic sharks managed under Amendment 2 to the 2006 Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Fishery Management Plan (FMP). This final rule also establishes the opening date for the commercial Atlantic shark fisheries. This action is expected to have minimal negative impacts on commercial fishermen in the Atlantic commercial shark fishery as only a small overharvest occurred in the porbeagle shark fishery in 2008.